摘 要
作为第一个获得诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女作家，托尼•莫里森对黑人女性文学作出了很大的贡献。《宠儿》是托尼•莫里森在1987年发表的第五部小说，这部以母爱为主题的小说是她从一个真实的故事中得到启发而写的，为她赢得了普利策奖。小说涉及了很多方面，例如女性主义，黑人社区以及文化探讨等。在数不胜数的话题中，本论文将略论托尼•莫里森对母爱的理解并将着重探讨小说中畸形母爱产生的原因。
本论文将首先探讨托尼•莫里森对“母爱”的理解，再举出其他学者对“母爱”的看法。接着，提出并剖析造成畸形母爱的四种原因，其分别是：主人公塞思无权成为一个称职的母亲，英语毕业论文，塞思母亲对塞思的作用，奴隶制以及黑人社区。本文将通过对比略论两种不同的母爱——塞思婆婆的压抑以及冷酷的母爱和塞思的浓烈而又矛盾的母爱，英语论文，剖析导致畸形母爱的深层原因。
关键词：母爱，奴隶制，黑人妇女主义，社区
Abstract
As the first black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison has made a lot of great contribution to black women literature. Her fifth novel Beloved was published in 1987 by which Toni Morrison got a Pulitzer Prize. Morrison got the idea from an actual event. The novel can be analyzed from various viewpoints, such as feminism, black community, cultural studies and so on. This thesis will elaborate the causes of deformed motherhood in Beloved.
The thesis will first study Toni Morrison’s view on motherhood and other experts’ views on motherhood will also be discussed. Then, this thesis will analyze four causes for deformed motherhood in Beloved. They are: the heroine, Sethe has no right to be a competent mother, the influence on Sethe from Sethe’s mother, the black slavery system and the black community. The thesis will pay special attention to two different types of motherhoods--one is Sethe’s mother-in-law’s depressed and cold-blooded motherhood, the other is Sethe’s strong but too “thick” motherhood that causes deformed motherhood in this story.
Keywords: motherhood, slavery system, black womanism, community
Chapter 1 Introduction
As the first black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature and the first African American Nobel Prize laureate in contemporary literature, Toni Morrison exertes great influence on contemporary literature world. In her works, Toni Morrison explores the experience and roles of black women in a racist and male dominated society. In the center of her complex and multilayered narratives is the unique cultural inheritance of African-Americans. Morrison is a member of both the National Council on the Arts and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Her novels have inspired a great many of reviews, essays on many kinds of subjects with different critical methodologies.
Beloved(1987) is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Tony Morrison. It is her fifth novel, by which Toni Morrison got Nobel Prize in 1993. The novel has studied from various aspects, such as feminism, black community, cultural study and so on. Among all, this thesis will pay the most attention to the causes of deformed motherhood in Beloved.
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